Parkway Craft Center

667 Service Rd

Blowing Rock, NC 28605

(828) 295-7938

Parkway Craft Center - A shop of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, located in the Moses Cone Manor, Milepost 294, represents 400 artists of the Southern Appalachians on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Craft demonstrations offered from April to November. Open daily March 15 to November 30, 9-5 daily. Closed Thanksgiving. www.southernhighlandguild.org (828) 295-7938.

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